The clinical definition of scurvy and the discovery of vitamin C / Leonard G. Wilson.
Abstract:
'The discovery of the antiscorbutic factor, vitamin C, was as clearly the product of a series of complex and arduous researches in experimental physiology and biochemistry as the clincial definition of scurvy was a product of work in the clinical-pathological tradition.'
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences Vol. 30 (1975), p. 40-60